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Your support makes all the difference.Business minister Kwasi Kwarteng refused to say how much Boris Johnson’s election pledges would cost – despite attacking Labour’s “reckless” spending plans.
The Conservative MP dodged the question during a TV interview after repeating his party’s claim that Jeremy Corbyn’s plans amounted to £1.2 trillion over five years.
In what was quickly described as a “car crash interview”, Mr Kwarteng told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday: “I’m not going to bandy around figures.” Ms Ridge replied: “But that’s what you’ve been doing for Labour.”
Meanwhile both the prime minister and the Labour leader faced criticism over their handling of the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph, as the election campaign geared up for a second week.
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The justice system “will break down” and allow crimes to go unpunished if the next government does not provide hundreds of millions of pounds in investment, it has been warned, Lizzie Dearden writes in an exclusive report.
A union said there are not enough crown prosecutors to deal with current cases, and that the situation will worsen if the 20,000 new police officers promised by Boris Johnson solve more crimes.
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In case you missed it earlier, the three major parties have all announced policies to help veterans as they mark Remembrance Sunday.
Transport secretary Grant Shapps said up to 700,000 former members of the armed forces will be able to buy a railcard to get a third off train travel, if the Conservatives win the election. The existing railcard, which costs £21 a year, only applies to serving members of the armed forces.
The Lib Dems are proposing to scrap settlement fees for veterans who were born outside the UK.
And Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn issued a message to the armed services promising "better pay, better accommodation, and better support for their families".
There are around 2.4 million veterans living in the UK, according to a 2017 population estimate.
The Foreign Office has told the parents of teenager Harry Dunn, who died in a crash involving a US diplomat’s wife, that their allegation foreign secretary Dominic Raab abused his power is “entirely without foundation”, writes Zoe Tidman.
Harry’s parents, who requested a judicial review over the handling of their son’s death, were told they had “not identified any reasonably arguable ground of legal challenge” by the Foreign Office.
In the letter, the department dismissed claims the foreign secretary had “misused and/or abused his power” or “committed misfeasance”.
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